"But we must make up for that next year.

I see you have one magnificent wheat-field.

But, fact is, I heard of that long before I got here." "Yes?
Where ?" ejaculated Kurt, quick to catch a significance in the other's words.
"I've motored direct from Wheatly.

And I'm sorry to say that what I have now to tell you is not pleasant....

Your father sold this wheat for eighty thousand dollars in cash.